Mercury
and lead are extremely neurotoxic and cytotoxic, but their combined synergistic effect is much worse(1,4). A dose of mercury sufficient to kill 1% of
tested rats, when combined with a dose of lead sufficient to kill less than 1%
of rats, resulted in killing 100 % of rats tested(1a,4).
Thus with combined exposure the safe dose is 1/100 as much as the dose
individually. Studies in Australia have confirmed similar relationships hold
for people(6). This means most people in the U.S. are
getting dangerous levels of these metals, enough to cause some neurologic effects.

Similar is true for synergistic effect with other toxic
metals like cadmium and arsenic(1), and with other
toxic chemicals like PCBs(2a) and pesticides and tobacco smoke(2b). The level
of mercury thimerosal in vaccines has been shown to be highly neurotoxic, but the effect was found to be much larger due
to the synergistic effect with aluminum, which is also in most vaccines(4). Studies using U.S. CDC data have found
thimerosal from vaccines to be major factors in autism and ADHD(5), along with
prenatal rhogam shots which contain high levels of
mercury thimerosal and are given to some RH negative women during pregnancy.

Dental
amalgam has been documented by hundreds of thousands of medical lab tests to be
the largest source of mercury in most adults or children who have several
amalgam fillings(7,8).Mothers dental amalgams have been documented
to be the largest source or mercury in the fetus, with levels in the fetus
higher than in the mothers blood(8), and similar for mercury levels in young
infants.Medical lab tests commonly
find significant levels of other toxic metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium,
antimony, etc. in both adult and childrens hair or
urine tests(12), and commonly find related adverse
health effects such as ADHD and learning disabilities.

Autism increased in the U.S. more than 10 fold
in the 1990s. According to the Florida Dept. of Education, the numbers
increased from approx. 300 to over 4000 during this time period. There have
likewise been large increases in the number of children with ADHD and other
developmental conditions, according to the National Academy of Sciences and
other sources(12) . A major factor in this appears to
be the large increase in vaccinations given to infants, as noted in the
previous post. (more documentation available at the childrens neurological page, www.flcv.com/indexk.html

There was an increase of over 45% in learning disabilities
in Pennsylvania between 1990 and 2000(3). But the study showed that the county
highest on the Chemical Pollution Scorecard, Montgomery, had an increase more
than double that of the rest of the state. Montgomery County had an increase in
ADHD of 32.7% and an increase in autism of 310%. An
analysis of the U.S. Dept. of Education report on the prevalence of various
childhood conditions among school children found that the rate of autism and
speech disorders increased with increasing levels of thimerosal exposure from
vaccines(5). A study of environmental mercury levels in Texas school districts found a 61
percent increase in autism and a 43 percent increase in special education cases
for every 1,000 pounds of mercury released into the environment(9a).
Autism
prevalence diminished by 2 percent for every 10 miles of distance from a
mercury source.Another similar
study found similar results and estimated economic costs due to disability or
lower IQ (9b). Fossil fuel-burning power
plants were the largest source of the widespread mercury pollution(9)
but dental amalgam was the largest source in sewers and a significant source of
environmental mercury in water bodies, fish, and air emissions(10).

Dr
Michael Godfrey and dentist Noel Campbell write:"...a lethal dose (LD1 [enough to kill 1% of the rats])
was combined with a 1/20th LD1 of lead, resulting in a LD 100 [100% death rate]
in the test animals."We have recently found that
considerable amounts of lead may be excreted with the mercury following DMPS
provocation. Our preliminary investigations appear to indicate that a
synergistic effect could be identified by multiplying the lead and mercury
concentrations together, after adjusting to IG of urine creatinine.
We have termed this the Campbell-Godfrey factor (C-G factor). Chronic-ally
affected patients may have high levels of either metal or a high total C-G
factor. Those with the highest C-G factor appear to be the worst affected, thus
indicating that the synergism in animals is replicated in man."

3. Pennsylvania Dept. of Education, 2003, Study of learning
disability incidence in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1990 and 2000; &
""Polluting Our Future: Chemical Emissions in the U.S. that Affect
Child Development and Learning,"" by Physicians For Social Responsibility,
at (202) 898-0150, psrnatl@psr.org

The original evidence cited for the synergistic effects of
lead and mercury (and cadmium) comes from a 1978 paper by Schubert et al
published in Michigan:"...the administration of an essentially no-response level (LD1)
of a mercury salt together with 1/20 of the LD1 of a lead salt killed all of
the animals [rats]."

The questions raised by these
studies and clinical experience are: is it safe for lead poisoned people to
have mercury fillings? Should CLAS advise parents of lead-poisoned
kids never to allow these fillings in their kids mouths? Should CLAS advise lead-poisoned
people who are planning to conceive for instance, to have their amalgam
fillings replaced, along with DMSA chelation therapy
and nutrient replenishment therapy, well in advance of trying to conceive? Is
it acceptable for anyone to be exposed to lead and mercury (and cadmium) as
they are in mining and smelting communities? Why arent the DMPS provocation test, DMSA chelation
therapy or amalgam removal procedures claimable under Medicare? When will amalgam be
banned or phased out?

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Consuming two toxic metals in combination, such as lead and
cadmium, or lead and mercury, can have a synergistic effect, meaning one metal
has the ability to enhance the toxicity of another metal in amounts smaller
than what it would usually take that metal to be toxic.(5)
Mercury in combination with PCBs through diet can also have a synergisitic effect.(6) Readers might be curious to
discover just how this synergistic effect is detected.

Laboratory animals are often used to test the toxicity of a
substance. In the case of testing lead and mercury together, rats were used.
Rats were dosed with an amount of mercury that would cause death in 1% of the
rat population within about 5 days. This is called lethal dose 1% or LD1. The
laboratory rats were also tested with a LD1 dose of lead. What is frightening
is that when mercury and lead LD1 dosages were combined, there was a 100%
mortality rate; all of the rats died, demonstrating that mercury and lead
together are highly synergistic in their toxic effects.(5)

It is rather disturbing to realize that some populations of
Canadian children are routinely ingesting chronic doses of lead, mercury, and
PCBs together in their diet.(1) Wheatley BandParadis
S. Balancing human exposure, risk and reality: Questions raised by the Canadian
Aboriginal Methylmercury Program. Neurotoxicology
1996;17(1):241-250.

Pennsylvania Dept. of Education, Study of learning
disability incidence in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 2003; &Polluting
Our Future: Chemical Emissions in the U.S. that Affect Child Development and
Learning, by Physicians For Social
Responsibility, at (202) 898-0150, psrnatl@psr.org

There was an increase of over 45% in learning disabilities
in Pennsylvania between 1990 and 2000

(3).But a study showed that the county highest on the Chemical
Pollution Scorecard had an increase more than double that of the rest of the
state.Montgomery County had an
increase in ADHD of 32.7% and an increase in autism of 310%. 1990 to 2000Montgomery County +94 % Least Polluted Comparison Area + 40.2 %Bradford, Lycoming,
Sullivan and Tioga Counties Pennsylvania + 46.6 % 1990 to 2000 Total Enrollment in Montgomery County Schools Down - 10.9 %

Learning Disabilities have Risen
Threefold in Montgomery County in comparison to the population - from 1990 to
2000

1990 to 2000

Montgomery County Intermediate
Unit Total Enrollment

+ 32.7 %

Montgomery County - Learning Impairment
Services

+ 32.7 %

Least Polluted Counties - Learning Impairment
Services

+ 1 %

1990 to 2000 - ADD/ADHD and Autism

Montgomery County ADD/ADHD

+ 32.7 %

Montgomery County Autism

+ 310 %

··Montgomery
County is one of the most chemically polluted counties in the nation,
according to Score Cards
pollution indicator.·· ADD and AUTISM are Neurodevelopmental
Disorders. ·· Heavily emitted
neurological and developmental toxins in Montgomery County could be Major
Factors in Increased Learning Disabilities, ADD, and Autism. Vinyl
Chloride, Mercury, Methyl IsobuatylKetone, TCE, and Lead are all neurological toxins. The
Pottstown Landfill is a source of ALL these neurological toxins. They travel
downwind into many parts of Montgomery County. Researchers had difficulty
determining exact amounts emitted by the Pottstown Landfill, since landfills
are not required to report to EPAs
Toxic Release Inventory. ·· Occidental Chemical in Pottstown has emitted over 1½½ Million Pounds of Vinyl Chloride into
Montgomery Countys air
since 1988 and has ranked 1st and 2nd in the nation in Vinyl Chloride emissions.

Montgomery County Children
Have Doubled Increases In Learning DisabilitiesCompared To Lesser Polluter Counties and the State -
1990 to 2000

Montgomery County is one
of the most POLLUTED Counties in the Nation, according to Score Cards pollution indicator.Ironically, all Pottstown Landfills toxic emissions are not included by Score Card.

Children everywhere are experiencing
unacceptable increases in learning disabilities which suggest a serious
problem. These disabilities are clearly the result of complex interactions
among environmental, social, and genetic factors that impact children during
vulnerable periods of development. There is new understanding about the effects
of environmental chemicals on these processes. Developmental disabilities,
including attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, and related neurodevelopmental diseases affect millions of American
children. The consequences of these disorders are often tragic. The family,
social and economic costs are immense, and the disabilities can be life-long.
Studies of animals and children show subtle changes in the concentrations of
normally occurring chemicals such as hormones  as well as the presence of toxic agents like
lead, mercury, or PCBs can produce profound and permanent changes in
the developing nervous system. These can lead to decrements in mental
performance. Developmental processes are extremely vulnerable to environmental
insult. For detailed information refer to In Harms Way - Toxic Threats to Child Development, by Greater Boston Physicians for Social
Responsibility and Polluting Our
Future: Chemical Emissions in the U.S. that Affect Child Development and
Learning, by Physicians For
Social Responsibility, at (202) 898-0150, psrnatl@psr.org Studies demonstrate
that a variety of chemicals commonly encountered in industry can contribute to
developmental, learning, and behavioral disabilities. Developmental neurotoxicants are chemicals that are toxic to the
developing brain. They include the metals lead, mercury, cadmium, and
manganese, and pesticides such as organophosphates. PCBs,
and DIOXINS bioaccumulate and are directly toxic to
cells and neurotransmitters. With widespread use and disposal of all
these chemicals and metals which affect learning disabilities, it is easy to
understand why learning disabilities increased in PA by 46.6%,
and even in the least polluted PA counties by 40.2% from 1990 to 2000. But, how
do we explain such shocking Montgomery County increases in learning
disabilities (more than twice the state and comparison area) 94%, ADHD (32.7%),
and autism at 310%? This represents an epidemic. ACE believes Montgomery
County children face a chemical plague. A major factor is toxic air
releases. The kinds of neurotoxins which cause learning disabilities, ADHD,
and autism are emitted into the air 7 days a week from the Pottstown Landfill
and Occidental Chemical. Both emit unknown amounts of dioxin. The Pottstown
Landfill emits synergistic and additive combinations of nearly every
neurotoxin. These can become far more toxic as they synergize. Mercury is just
one example. Occidental Chemical in Pottstown has emitted 1½½ million pounds of vinyl chloride since 1988.
These emissions travel downwind through many parts of Montgomery County.
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A testing procedure is described for the
assessment of the toxicological response (e.g., acute toxicity or mutagenicity) of any combination and number of chemical,
physical, and biological agents, with no more effort for a particular
combination than for a single agent. The method provides a simple, sensitive,
and quantitative index of synergism, antagonism, and additivity,
and it has been demonstrated experimentally in rats by determining the acute
lethality of combinations of cadmium, mercury, and lead salts. In a combination
of two metal salts, the dose of one metal of the pair was fixed at or near the
no-effect level while the dose of the second metal was increased until the entire
dose-response curve was obtained. To evaluate interactions of the three metals,
the previous pair of metals were kept fixed at their
combined extrapolated LD1 level, and the third metal was increased. The
statistical treatment of the data employed a computer program that did not
involve probit transformations, but rather the
approximate linear relationship between the fractional response and the
logarithm of the dose. A particular combination could be synergistic,
antagonistic, or additive, depending on the relative doses employed. Generally,
a combination was synergistic when the most toxic member was present at or near
its LD1 dose in the presence of the much less toxic member; the same
combination was protective when the least toxic member was present at or near
its LD1 dose. The results clarify apparently contradictory reports regarding
the biological effects of metal combinations. The application of the testing
procedure to combinations of mutagens is described, and an example is cited
involving, for a particular bacterial mutagen, a combination of
N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine with ethylmethanesulfonate.

Toxic Overload:
Assessing the Role of Mercury in Autism By Boyd E. Haley Issue
115, November/December 2002 From 1996 to 1997, J. Curtis Pendergrass,
PhD, did some experiments in my research laboratory at the University of
Kentucky that confirmed the toxicity of thimerosal in vaccines. The results
appeared on our website (www.altcorp.com), where they attracted the attention
of some parents of autistic children.

These parents informed
me that increased mandatory vaccination of infants was, in their opinion, the
cause of an apparent epidemic of autism. This was the first time I had heard
of this situation. The rationale for considering vaccinations as the cause of
their children's problems seemed sensible and worth an investigation. I would
like to state here that I am a very strong supporter of the national vaccine
program, and that nothing in this article should be construed to imply that
parents should avoid getting their children vaccinated. But I do recommend
avoiding vaccines that contain thimerosal.

My laboratory was well
experienced in mercury research. We had earlier demonstrated that mercury,
when exposed to normal human brain tissue homogenates, is capable of causing
many of the same biochemical aberrancies found in Alzheimer's diseased (AD)
brains.1-4 Also, rats exposed to mercury vapor show the same major protein
aberrancy as AD brains. Specifically, the rapid inactivation of important
brain enzymes occurs following the addition of low levels of mercury or
exposure to mercury vapor, and these same enzymes are significantly inhibited
in AD brains.5 Also, mercury exposure to neurons in culture by other
researchers, at a concentration lower than that found in many human brains,
has now been shown to produce three of the widely accepted pathological
diagnostic hallmarks of AD.6,7

Therefore, we
hypothesized that exposure to mercury is involved in the etiology of AD, or
at least would exacerbate this disease. We also proposed that other heavy
metals, such as lead and cadmium, which act synergistically to enhance the
toxicity of mercury, could be involved. Additionally, we proposed that exposure
to organic-mercury compounds like methyl mercury from fish and ethyl mercury
from thimerosal would also enhance the toxicity of any exposure to mercury.
The early work of Dr. Pendergrass confirmed this with pure thimerosal, with
some interesting additional observations. First, in human brain samples the
exposure to mercury dramatically reduced the viability of a major brain
protein called tubulin, but had little if any
effect on another major protein, actin. Both tubulin and actin are
critically important for the growth of dendrites or maintenance of axon
structures of neurons. Exposing neurons to mercury rapidly results in the
stripping of tubulin from the axon structure,
leaving bare neurofibrils that form the tangles
that are the diagnostic hallmark of AD. Thimerosal, like mercury, also
rapidly reduces the viability of tubulin; in
addition, however, it abolishes the viability of actin.
This likely represents a major difference in the mechanism of mercury versus
organic-mercury (more neurotoxic) toxicity.
However, both mercury and organic-mercury inhibit tubulin
viability and would work in concert to damage neurons of the central nervous
system.

We therefore decided to
investigate vaccines with and without thimerosal present as a preservative,
using human brain tissues. To date the data have been very consistent: the
toxicity of the vaccines is primarily dependent on the presence of thimerosal
and, in my opinion, would be classified as severely toxic to numerous brain
proteins. In the spring of 2001 these data were presented to the Institute of
Medicine Immunization Safety Review Committee, which concluded its analysis
by suggesting that thimerosal involvement in autism was a plausible
hypothesis. Since then I have formed a collaboration
with one of my colleagues, Mark Lovell, PhD, who uses cultured neurons in
some of his experiments. Using his cultured neuron system, we studied the
extent of neurotoxicity of pure thimerosal and of
vaccines with and without thimerosal present. The experiments were done as
follows: Neurons were grown in culture for 24 hours. Then pure thimerosal or
vaccines were added to test cultures. The death of neurons was observed for
the next 24 hours and compared to the death of neurons in the absence of
toxicant.

The results were almost
identical to the results observed with brain tissues: vaccines with
thimerosal present were much more toxic than thimerosal-free vaccines. Pure
thimerosal was toxic at the low nanomolar level--an
extremely low concentration, about 10,000 times less than the thimerosal
concentration found in most vaccines. These results leave little doubt about
thimerosal being the toxic agent in the vaccines. However, many vaccines
contain aluminum ions that have neurotoxic
properties, and aluminum was once considered a factor in AD etiology. So we
tested aluminum in the same system.

Aluminum is not nearly
as toxic to neurons in culture as is thimerosal. However, we had earlier
observed with mercury that the presence of other metals would enhance
toxicity. Experiments were done to determine if aluminum would increase the
toxicity of very low levels of thimerosal. The results were unequivocal: the
presence of aluminum dramatically increased the rate of neuronal death caused
by thimerosal. Therefore, the aluminum and thimerosal combination found in
vaccines produces a toxic mixture that cannot be compared to situations where
thimerosal alone is the toxic exposure.

The enhanced toxicity of
thimerosal created by the addition of aluminum represents a problem with all
forms of mercury toxicity. Synergism of toxic metals is well known. A
slightly toxic solution of lead, mixed with a slightly toxic solution of
mercury, results in a very toxic mixture. This is similar to the enhanced
adverse reactivity to thimerosal found in optomological
solutions, when subjects were prescribed to take the antibiotic tetracycline.
For some reason, tetracycline increased the ocular toxic reaction to
thimerosal. We have done some experiments to determine if certain antibiotics
could also increase thimerosal-induced neuronal death in the neuron culture
system. Our preliminary results indicate that this is the case, especially
with tetracycline and ampicillin. Further research
is needed in this area for accurate evaluation. But our results support
previous reports and indicate how important it is to check out the effects of
other compounds on the exacerbation of mercury and organic-mercury compound
toxicity.

One of the conundrums of
autism is why there is an approximate ratio of four boys to every girl who
gets this disease. Dr. Lovell therefore tested the possibility that this
could be hormone related. The latest results were quite marked in their
effects. Neurons that were pre-incubated with estrogen demonstrated
substantial protection against thimerosal-induced neuron death. In contrast,
the addition of testosterone caused a very large increase in
thimerosal-induced neuron death. A low nanomolar
level of thimerosal that gave less than 5 percent neuron death in three hours
could be increased to 100 percent cell death by the addition of one micromolar level of testosterone. Testosterone alone at
this level also showed less than 5 percent cell death. The opposing effects
of estrogen and testosterone may explain the gender-based four-to-one ratio.
Most important, the tremendous enhancement of thimerosal toxicity by
testosterone points out the impact of synergistic effects when addressing
mercury toxicity.

Those involved in
promoting the use of mercury in medicine and dentistry favor the old adage
"Dose makes the toxin," and pick a supposedly safe level based on
testing young, healthy mammals that have been exposed to mercury compounds.
The synergistic enhancement of thimerosal toxicity by testosterone and
aluminum demonstrates that no one can pick a concentration of mercury or
organic-mercury and say with confidence, "This is a safe dose for human
infants"--at least not with our current level of knowledge.

MMR
(measles-mumps-rubella) has been widely discussed as a vaccine involved in
autism-related problems. Our studies did not find MMR vaccines (no thimerosal
added) to be nearly as neurotoxic as
thimerosal-containing vaccines. So how does this fit into the observations of
measles virus in the intestines of a large percentage of autistic children?

My theory, and it is
only a theory at this time, is based on the fact that thimerosal is an
inhibitor of the brain protein tubulin. One of the
jobs of tubulin is to support the axon structure of
nerve axons; exposure to thimerosal, or mercury, destroys this capability. Tubulin also has another job: it is involved in formation
of the meiotic spindle on which a cell splits in two. In other words, tubulin is needed for cell division, and cell division is
needed for development of an immune response. Inhibit tubulin
function with thimerosal injections, and you inhibit the immune response.

I have been told that
the MMR vaccination is often given at the same time that three
thimerosal-containing vaccines are given. Inhibit the immune response with
the thimerosal-containing vaccinations, and an infant has less ability to
respond to the measles virus in the MMR vaccination that is injected at the same
setting. This might explain the presence of measles virus in about 80 percent
of autistic children.

The research results we
have obtained on the toxicity of thimerosal are not really surprising. This
ethyl mercury-releasing compound was known to be neurotoxic
through the publication of several research articles, some quite old. Any
competent biochemist would look at the structure of the compound and identify
it as a potent enzyme inhibitor. What is surprising is that the appropriate
animal and laboratory testing was not done on the vaccines containing
thimerosal (and aluminum) before the government embarked on a mandated
vaccine program that exposed infants to the levels of thimerosal that
occurred.

At this time it appears that
exposure to thimerosal is the most likely suspect in vaccines that may be
involved in causing autism and related disorders. The final verdict will come
with observing the rate of autism now that thimerosal has been removed from
the infant vaccine program. Let us therefore give credit to those who have
worked to remove thimerosal from the vaccines given to infants and emphasize
that continued testing of all vaccines is imperative to obtain the safest
national vaccine policy possible, including a thimerosal-free flu vaccine for
our elderly citizens.

Dec 2003Last October, a Report by the National
Institutes of Environmental Heath Sciences (NIEHS) acknowledged that fluoride
has been observed to have synergistic effects on the toxicity of aluminum, complexing with the mineral in the water. They acknowledge
that most drinking water is high in fluoride/aluminum complexes, which enhance neurotoxicity. Other studies have shown that cooking with
fluoridated water leaches the aluminum out of the aluminum cooking pots, with
different amounts being released depending on the foods being cooked, whereas
cooking with non-fluoridated water resulted in no release of aluminum from the
pans. Leaching of up to 600 ppm occurred with prolonged
boiling!

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Burning Brain

The Burning Brain, Its
Cause and Cure I did not find
"burning brain" as one of the symptoms of mercury poisoning in any
list when I was looking for symptoms of mercury poisoning. I searched on the
Internet for "symptom-burning brain," and could not find anything.It is so frightening to have a "hot
spot" in your brain or to feel that your "brain is on fire." I
lay in my bed at nights before I was diagnosed with mercury toxicity imagining
all the holes that were being caused in my blood brain barrier by this burning.
My neurologist could not tell me why my brain burned, but thought it was
improbable that I had mercury poisoning. But then he confessed, "he knew little about mercury poisoning." After being
diagnosed as mercury poisoned and being introduced to the ACAM neurologist Dr.
David Perlmutter, I found an article written by Dr. Perlmutter that explained why my brain burned. He was
addressing a conference of ACAM doctors and called my symptoms "a brain on
fire." In "The Role of Inflammation in Chronic Diseases" Dr. Perlmutter explained that when a combination of toxins are
in the brain (in my case aluminum, mercury and thallium) there is a synergistic
effect on the damage they cause.

Synergism-interaction of agents (as
drugs), or conditions such that the total effect is greater than the sum of the
individual effects.

I have come into contact with several mercury-
poisoned personed people now, who are saying that
their brains burned. Do not rule out mercury poisoning just because your brain
does not burn. People with mercury poisoning experience varying symptoms.I have recently had a conversation with a friend
in Roanoke who says he has a "hot spot" on top of his head. He chain
smokes cigarettes so he is exposed to the heavy metal cadmium in the
cigarettes. Smoking cigarettes increase the damage caused by mercury in your
mouth because of the heat on the fillings. Any heat in the mouth causes the
mercury to leak from the fillings and it takes an hour or two for the mercury
vapors from the fillings to calm down.My friend also
has a mouth full of mercury fillings and root canals that probably contain
mercury. Then he exposed himself to lead poisoning by sanding down doors with old
lead paint without wearing a mask. He has also been exposed to paint fumes from
painting cars. Now he has lost his hair and what hair remains has turned white
overnight. He needs to have a heavy metals test run by an ACAM doctor and start
removing the metal safely from his mouth. Then he needs to detox
the poisons out of his body. If he doesn't he could end up with a neurological
disease. In September of 2003, I had a conversation with another friend, Troy,
and I explained to him how I had been poisoned. He said, "Well, Marie,
that explains some of the things that have happened to me when I went to
dentists." He went on to explain that proabably
around seven years ago he had a dentist in Bland, VA to drill out two fillings.
That is when the burning in his brain first started. He also had a headache
that would not go away, not even with pain relievers. The burning gradually
subsided, but it would come back when he would drink diet drinks that contained
the sugar substitute aspertame. So he learned to
avoid aspertame. He said that was when he first
started experiencing memory loss.Later my friend
moved to Amelia, VA and he had several more mercury fillings drilled out. He
did not put together the connection between his dental work and the burning in
the brain. He just saw a connection with the aspertameexaserbating his symptoms. After this new dental work
where he was exposed to more mercury vapor, his brain burned again, the
headaches reappeared and the memory loss was worse. Now his wife is complaining
about his memory loss.When I read the book Beating
Alzheimer's by Tom Warren, I was very interested that he said when he was
diagnosed with Alzheimer's that his brain burned.After
speaking with my local ACAM doctor, I now understand that toxins in the brain cause
free radical damage. So one must remove the toxins and in the process of
removing the toxins this will help remove the inflammation and the burning that
is associated with neurological diseases. EDTA chelation
removes some heavy metal toxins; DMSA removes others such as mercury. Taking
antioxidants such as Vitamin C helps to lesson the symptoms caused by free
radical damage. Persons that are mercury poisoned frequently take 5000 to 6000
mg of Vitamin C a day. However, you need to work with your doctor to get on a
balanced program of vitamins and minerals.I would
recommend that you buy the book BrainRecovery.Com, Powerful Therapy for
Challenging Brain Disorders by Dr. David Perlmutter
if you have a neurological disease. He is a board certified neurologist from
Florida that belongs to ACAM. On the Amazon.com website Bernie Siegel, M.D.
says of Dr. Perlmutter's book:

"...Should be available to everyone so true
integrative therapy can become the normal method of treatment in the neurology
field."

Though Dr. Permutter
is an ACAM doctor and these doctors are known as chelation
doctor, he does not stress testing for heavy metals in this book. He makes no
mention of removing mercury fillings.Mercury and
other heavy metals are the major contributor to neurological diseases. You will
find this on Dr. Mercola's website and also the
neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock said the same thing on Pat Robertson's 700
Club. Also exposure to chemicals, pesticides and industrial poisons contribute
to neurological diseases. But if you have a neurotoxin right in your mouth just
inches from your brain, you must remove the mercury from your mouth. Also
remove toxic metal crowns and toxic root canals. A biological dentist, along
with the materials you receive from DAMS can advise you on what is toxic.I would use Dr. Perlmutter's
book as an introduction to some alternative therapies for neurological
diseases. He warns that the medication Parkinson's patients receive from their
doctors will actually cause the symptoms to get worse in the long run. If you
have a neurological disease find an ACAM doctor in your area that is
experienced in heavy metal toxicity. Some ACAM doctors are also neurologists
and some specialize in degenerative diseases. When you go to the ACAM site
online you will see the specialties of each doctor listed beside his name. Be
sure to see what the code for the specialties are at
the end of the list. (example NT=nutrition)So my
recommendations to you is this:1. Order an information
packet from DAMS concerning mercury toxicity from toxic dentistry. Get the name
of a DAMS coordinator in your state that you can talk to.2. Find a local ACAM
doctor experienced in treating toxic patients. He will give you a heavy metals
test. Mercury may not show up as high on a test, but if you have mercury in
your mouth and you have a neurological disease, you will still need to remove
mercury fillings and detox your body. It is hard to
test for mercury as it likes to hide in the brain and not come out for a heavy metals' test.Some ACAM
doctors may say that your score for mercury is not high enough to detox your body of mercury. I disagree with this. King
James Medical Laboratory states that there is no safe level of mercury in the
body, and Dr. Boyd Haley, leading researcher of mercury in the USA, is
testifying before Congressional hearings on mercury dental fillings that there
is no safe level of mercury in the body. And if you have other heavy metals in
your body, the small amount of mercury will be intensified in your body. I say
don't leave any mercury in your body. Get it all out! And please don't just
settle for your doctor saying to you, "Your test results were low, and are
not problem." Get copies of the test results
yourself and put them in your own files. You have a right to remove all heavy
metals from your body. Your doctor might not be aware to the latest research on
heavy metals. Dr. Boyd Haley is saying that some of the most poisoned people
may actually have low levels of mercury in their heavy metals testing scores
because they are poor excreters of mercury. See the
footnote on Marie's Story of Mercury Poisoning for an explanation of this.3.
Find a biological dentist to safely remove toxic fillings, crowns, and root
canals from your mouth. Talk to your state DAMS coordinator before you choose
your biological dentist. Make sure the biological dentist will properly protect
you from mercury vapor.4. Order Dr. Perlmutter's book
as a book you can use in conjunction to the advice and treatment you will
receive from your local ACAM doctor. Do not order the neurological supplements
from Dr. Perlmutter until AFTER you see what your
local ACAM doctor wants to prescribe for you. Then you can discuss with your
local ACAM doctor what Dr. Perlmutter recommends and
together decide if you need to take additional supplements that Dr. Perlmutter recommends for the brain.5. Do not use Dr. Perlmutter's book and become your own doctor. You need an
alternative doctor to help you with supplements and treatments. Do not go to Wal Mart and buy vitamins that Dr. Perlmutter
recommends. You need an alternative doctor to help you figure out which
supplements are appropriate for you. If you buy them yourself you will just end
up with a bag full of bottles and you may not even buy the correct form of the
supplement that is the most effective. Also your ACAM doctor may have several
of the things Dr. Perlmutter recommends in
combination in one pill. If you try to buy these yourself, you may end up with
20 bottles of pills.It is so sad that when a person
has a neurological disease conventional medicine will not even check for heavy
metals in the brain! Conventional doctors just diagnose a patient with a
"label" whether it is Alzheimer's, ALS, MS, or Parkinson's. Autism in
children is also known by some doctors to have been caused by exposure to
toxins such as aluminum and mercury through vaccines. Conventional doctors, not
even neurologists, even check the brain to remove heavy metals! Improvements in
these neurological conditions are increased by early detection of the heavy
metals and the removal of these metals from the brain and the teeth. (DAN
doctors may help remove metals from autistic children.)If you need an
alternative doctor to help a child with autism, there is a doctor in Richmond,
VA listed on the www.acam.org site. (I do not personally know this doctor, but
it would be a starting place for Virginians who want help.) Just go to the
American College for the Advancement in Medicine site (www.acam.org) and click
on VA. If the traditional doctors won't even admit that the heavy metal
ingredients in vaccines are causing autism, how can you expect a traditional
doctor to help your child detox from the heavy metals
in vaccines? How can these major teaching hospitals help you if they won't test
properly for heavy metals and know how to remove them? Mainstream doctors are
not chelation doctors. If you have a
illness related to heavy metals, you need a chelation
doctor. Chelation doctors have been removing metals
for years.Doctors belonging to the American College
for the Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) are located at
www.acam.org.****************

Statistically there is a higher incidence of hip
fracture in residents of fluoridated areas. This includes U.S. studies
published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) by Dr. S.J.
Jacobsen in 1990 and Christa Danielson and others in 1992.

Fluoride Research and Dental Caries
(cavities)Prof. Y. Imai of Japan studied 22,000 schoolchildren in 1972 in
naturally occurring fluoride areas and found increased caries (dental cavities)
with increased levels of fluoride.A study of 23,000
elementary schoolchildren in Tucson, Arizona, by Dr. Cornelius Steelink in 1992, showed increased caries (dental cavities)
with increased levels of fluoride in drinking waterProfessor
S.P.S. Teotia of India who reported on a study of
400,000 children from 1973 to 1993 also showed increased caries (dental
cavities) with increased levels of fluoride in drinking water.

"In 1999, the US Environmental
Protection Agency finally reviewed three studies carried out by scientists at
Binghamton University. The scientists reported 80% death rates, kidney damage and brain damage in rats
exposed to half of one milligram of aluminum fluoride complexes in a litre of drinking water. This is less than half of the
amount of fluoride which is added in fluoridation schemes.

Finally, the National Toxicology Program
was asked to commission studies to determine the extent of neurotoxic
damage from aluminum in drinking water, particularly stressing the fluoride
interaction."

Last October, a Report by the National
Institutes of Environmental Heath Sciences (NIEHS) acknowledged that fluoride has been observed
to have synergistic effects on the toxicity of aluminum

"I was particularly pleased when the
US Environmental Protection Agency report by Urbansky
and Schock on the toxicity of lead and fluoride in
drinking water confirmed that fluoride complexes with other substances in the
water.

They also acknowledged that most drinking
water contains a substantial amount of fluoro-aluminium
complexes. This should be a warning to dentists who hold with the simplistic
notion that fluoride only affects teeth and is perfectly safe in drinking
water."

According to the NIEHS Report, most water
treatment processes result in increased levels of aluminum in the finished
drinking water.

It stated that fluoridation will result
in aluminum fluoride complexes which will enhance neurotoxicity,
or that fluoride itself will enhance uptake and synergise
the toxicity of the aluminum

Other studies have shown that in the
presence of fluoride, aluminum leaches out of cookware. Boiling fluoridated tap water in an aluminum pan leached
almost 200
parts per million (ppm) of aluminum into the water in 10 minutes.

Leaching of up to 600 PPM occurred with
prolonged boiling. Different releases of aluminum depend upon the composition
of the pan and the type of food being cooked. Using non-fluoridated water
showed almost no leaching from aluminum pans.

Elizabeth O'BrienManager, Global Lead Advice and
Support Service (GLASS), run by The LEAD Group Inc

ph +61 2 9716 0014

fax + 61 2 9716 9005

PO Box 161 Summer Hill NSW 2130 Australia

www.lead.org.au

FULL CITATION

Are Amalgam Fillings Safe for
Lead-poisoned People?

LEAD Action News vol 5 no 2 1997
ISSN 1324-6011

The journal of The LEAD (Lead Education
and Abatement Design) Group Inc.

[Source:www.lead.org.au/lanv5n2/lanv5n2-4.html]

By Elizabeth O'Brien, Project Coordinator,
NSW Community Lead Advisory
Service (CLAS).

Alarming information about the synergistic effects of lead
and mercury,recently
brought to the attention of CLAS by ASOMAT members, will be thebasis of an enquiry by CLAS to the NSW and
Federal Health Ministers.

ASOMATis the Australasian Society of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (ph
02 9867 1111), a non-profit organisation founded by
concerned doctors and dentists.

Amalgam fillings
contain 50% mercury.

> The original evidence cited for the synergistic
effects of lead and mercury(and
cadmium) comes from a 1978 paper by Schubert et al published in Michigan:"...the administration of an essentially
no-response level (LD1) of amercury
salt together with 1/20 of the LD1 of a lead salt killed all of theanimals [rats]."

Dr Michael Godfrey and dentist Noel Campbell write:

"...a lethal dose (LD1 [enough to kill 1% of the
rats]) was combined with a1/20th LD1 of lead, resulting in a LD 100 [100% death rate] in
the testanimals."We have recently found that
considerable amounts of lead may be excretedwith the mercury following DMPS
provocation. Our preliminary investigationsappear to indicate that a synergistic
effect could be identified bymultiplying the lead and mercury concentrations together, after
adjusting toIG of urine creatinine. We have termed this the Campbell-Godfrey factor
(C-Gfactor).
Chronic-ally affected patients may have high levels of either metalor a high total
C-G factor. Those with the highest C-G factor appear to bethe worst affected, thus indicating
that the synergism in animals isreplicated in man."

>

> The questions raised are: is it safe for lead poisoned
people to havemercury
fillings? Should CLAS advise parents of lead-poisoned kids never toallow these
fillings in their kid's mouths? Should CLAS advise lead-poisonedpeople who are planning to conceive
for instance, to have their amalgamfillings
replaced, along with DMSA chelation therapy and
nutrientreplenishment therapy, well in
advance of trying to conceive? Is itacceptable for anyone to be exposed to
lead and mercury (and cadmium) asthey
are in mining and smelting communities? Why aren't the DMPS provocationtest, DMSA chelation
therapy or amalgam removal procedures claimable underMedicare? When will Australia phase out
amalgams?

Another group of doctors who may understand heavy metals
are environmental doctors belonging to the American Academy of Environmental
Medicine.

Mercury and lead are extremely neurotoxic and cytotoxic, but their combined synergistic
effect is
much worse. A dose of mercury sufficient to kill 1% of tested rats, when
combined with a dose of
lead sufficient to kill less than 1% of rats, resulted in killing 100
% of rats tested(1). Thus with combined exposure the safe dose is
1/100 as much as the dose individually. Studies in Australia have confirmed
similar relationships
hold for people. This means most people in the U.S. are getting dangerous
levels of these metals,
enough to cause some neurologic effects.

Similar is true for synergistic effect with other toxic metals like arsenic,
and with other toxic
chemicals like PCBs(2). The level of mercury thimerosal in vaccines has been
shown to be highly
neurotoxic, but the effect was found to be much larger due to the synergistic
effect with aluminum,
which is also in most vaccines(4). Studies using U.S. CDC data have found
thimerosal from vaccines
to be major factors in autism and ADHD(5), along with prenatal rhogam shots
which contain high
levels of mercury thimerosal and are given to some RH negative women during
pregnancy.

Autism has increased in the U.S. more than 10 fold in the last decade.
According to the Florida
Dept. of Education, the numbers increased from approx. 300 to over 4000 during
this time period.
There have likewise been large increases in the number of children with ADHD
and other developmental
conditions, according to the National Academy of Sciences and other sources. A
major factor in this
appears to be the large increase in vaccinations given to infants, as noted in
the previous post.
(more documentation available at the childrens neurological page,
www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/indexk.html)

There was an increase of over 45% in learning disabilities in Pennsylvania
between 1990 and 2000(3).
But the study showed that the county highest on the Chemical Pollution
Scorecard, Montgomery, had an
increase more than double that of the rest of the state. Montgomery County had
an increase in ADHD
of 32.7% and an increase in autism of 310%.

Bernard Windham, M.D.

ps. note that a high percentage of Gulf state residents have been documented to
have high levels
of mercury exposure(Mobile Register study,
www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/flhg.html)

3. Pennsylvania Dept. of Education, 2003, Study of learning disability
incidence in Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania, 1990 and 2000; & ""Polluting Our Future:
Chemical Emissions in the U.S.
that Affect Child Development and Learning,"" by Physicians For
Social Responsibility, at (202)
898-0150, psrnatl@psr.org